Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orkney and Shetland

CANDIDATE : Leslie

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Leslie, K.C., who was born in 1905, is a native of South Shields. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. In 1930 he secured his LL.B., and in 1937 was called to the Scottish Bar. He became counsel for the Department of Agriculture, Scotland, and Sheriff Clerk Depute in the Glasgow circuit. He served in the Army during the war. and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war he was appointed legal assessor to the Dean of Guild and Burgh Courts of Edinburgh. He took silk ast year.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Loch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. D. Loch is the second son of Major-General Lord Loch, and was born in 1920. Educated at Wellington and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the war in the Grenadier Guards, and was awarded the M.C., and when demobilized was a major. During 1947-48 he worked in Mr. Churchill’s secretariat at the Conservative Central Office.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bethnal Green

CANDIDATE : Welfare

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. D. Welfare, s the wife of a Reigate painter and decorator, and has appeared in local elections as a ” working man’s wife.’ Born n 1898, she has been a member of the Conservative Party since she was 18, and worked for the Junior Imperial League.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Cooper

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Cooper, aged 41, comes from a Lancashire working-class family. Originally an office worker and a member of Manchester City Council, he later became an official in London of the Municipal and General Workers’ Union, and is now a member of the Metropolitan Water Board and an alderman of the London County Council.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hackney South

CANDIDATE : Marlow

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. A. Marlow, who is 35, is a Londoner. He served with the R.A.F. from 1935 in Iraq and elsewhere. Invalided after a crash during the second retreat from Benghazi, he was later a Wing Commander at Combined Operations H.Q. He left the R.A.F. in 1946, and is sales manager of a City firm of exporters.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington East

CANDIDATE : Fletcher

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Fletcher, who is 46 and the son of a former town clerk of Islington, won the seat for the Labour Party in 1945. From an elementary school he won scholarships which took him to London University. A solicitor, he specializes in inter-national law. He repre-sented South Islington on the L.C.C. for 14 years. Mr. Fletcher is deputy chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation, Limited, and a director of its associated companies.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington South

CANDIDATE : Frankenburg

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Frankenburg was born in 1921 and was educated at Stowe and at Balliol. He is the son of Sydney Frankenburg, who founded the first Jewish branch of the British Legion. In 1940, when reading law, he volunteered for the Army and served in Egypt, Palestine, and ^yna. He was taken prisoner in the desert, and while in Germany continued his studies and passed his first Bar examination. Mr. Frankenburg is treasurer of the World Federa-“°n of Liberal and Radical Youth.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Rouse

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. W. Rouse, a master builder and decorator in Surrey, aged 53, went to Millwall *~entral School and trained as a technical engineer. In that capacity with an electrical company after the war he travelled widely in America.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Watson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Watson, full-time leader of the dockers, lightermen, and seamen in the Port of London, began work as a messenger at Canning Town, where he attended Star Lane School. At 16 he became an apprentice lighterman, and later was a foreman lighterman and afterwards mate of a tug.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Edwards, who is 49, served as a naval stoker during the two world wars and was the first man to go diEect from the lower deck to the House of Commons, to which he was elected as member for White-chapel in 1942 and again in 1945. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty throughout the late Government. He was mayor of Stepney in 1944-45, and at one time a trade union organizer in the London docks.

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